People

Steering Committee

Centre Director

Rasmus Fensholt is PI at TreeSense and professor in Geography with specialities within remote sensing; Earth observation; global change studies; land system science; climate change; primary productivity monitoring; carbon stocks; forest degradation; plant water stress; land degradation; land surface phenology. Rasmus has successfully built a world-renowned research lab within remote sensing of vegetation resources bridging all four research themes. He is connected to Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management. Contact: rf@ign.ku.dk

Centre Administrator

Andreas Egelund Christensen is PhD in Geography and centre administrator. He is connected to Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management. Contact: aec@ign.ku.dk

Lead Researchers

	Ankit Kariyaa is Co-PI at TreeSense and assistant professor (tenure track) in machine learning. ’He is connected to Department of Computer Science and Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management. Contact: kariryaa@di.ku.dk
	Christian Igel is Co-PI at TreeSense and professor in machine learning. He is connected to Department of Computer Science. Contact: igel@di.ku.dk
	Josep Peñuelas Reixach is Co-PI at TreeSense and senior researcer at CREAF (Spain) Contact: josep.penuelas@creaf.cat
	Laura Vang Rasmussen is Co-PI at TreeSense and Professor in Geography with specialities within land use changes, their human and environmental drivers, and the outcomes of these land use changes. She is connected to Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management. Contact: lr@ign.ku.dk
	Martin Stefan Brandt is Co-PI at TreeSense and associate professor in Geography with specialities within land, environment and society. He is connected to Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management. Contact: mabr@ign.ku.dk
	Philippe Ciais is Co-PI at TreeSense and associate director at Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement (France). Contact: philippe.ciais@lsce.ipsl.fr

TreeSense Resarchers

Early Career Researchers (Student Assistants, PhD Fellows, Postdocs, and Assistant Professors)

• Abhirukth Kumar Chakravarthy, Research assistant
• Anika Mette Caspersen, PhD Fellow
• Anton August Hiller, PhD Fellow
• Arina Machine, Postdoc
• Ask Holm Carlsen, PhD Fellow
• Cristian Andreoli, PhD Fellow
• Dimitri Gominski, Postdoc
• Emilie Vansant, Postdoc
• Florian Reiner, Postdoc
• Francois Jérome Ritter, Postdoc
• Freja Meyer, Student assistant
• Helene Koehnen, PhD Fellow
• Hui Zhang, Postdoc
• Iris C Jarre, Research Assistant
• Jiyuan Qiu, PhD Fellow
• Ke Huang, Postdoc
• Kris Woltering, PhD Fellow
• Kristoffer Ansbak Petersen, PhD Fellow
• Lukas Ingholt, Student assistant
• Malte Emil Kæstel Zierau, Student assistant
• Manohar Kumar C. V. S. S, Postdoc
• Martin Schwartz, Postdoc
• Mathias Elmegaard Nielsen, Student assistant
• Maurice Mugabowindekwe, Postdoc
• Max Friedemann Gaber, PhD Fellow
• Miklas Hjorth Andreasen, Student assistant
• Naveen Kottayil, PhD Fellow
• Rachel Nubwimana, PhD Fellow
• Rene Arum Rafael Lee, Postdoc
• Sara Charbonnier, PhD Fellow
• Siyu Liu, Postdoc
• Sizhuo Li, Postdoc
• Tess Chemouny, Research Assistant
• Thomas Boudras, PhD Fellow
• Venkanna Babu Guthula, Postdoc
• Wanting Yang, postdoc
• Xiaoye Tong, Assistant Professor
• Xin Xu, Postdoc
• Yan Shi, Postdoc
• Zhanyu Ma, PhD Fellow

Collaborative Researchers

• Christin Abel, Assistant Professor, IGN, UCPH
• Compton Tucker, Visiting Scientist, NASA, GSFC, USA
• Nico Lang, Postdoc, Assistant Professor, DIKU, UCPH
• Ole Mertz, Professor, IGN, UCPH
• Stéphanie Horion, Associate Professor, IGN, UCPH

Affiliated Researchers

• Alexander Prishchepov, Associate Professor
• Bo Elberling, Professor
• Daniel Ortiz Gonzalo, Assistant Professor
• Gyula Mate Kovács, Postdoc
• Martin Rudbeck Jepsen, Associate Professor
• Mayra Darre, Postdoc
• Paul Senty, PhD Fellow
• Robert Keppler, PhD Fellow
• Scott Alan Ford, Postdoc
• Stefan Oehmcke, Assistant Professor
• Sultan Duran, Postdoc
• Thilde Bech Bruun, Associate Professor
• Xaquín S. Pérez-Sindín, Guest Researcher
• Yan Cheng, Postdoc

Visiting Scholars

• Chang Zhou, PhD Fellow
• Fréjuste J. Cofélas Fassinou, PhD Fellow
• Isaura Menezesdeog, PhD Fellow
• Luwei Feng, PhD Fellow
• Moritz Lucas, PhD Fellow
• Nguyen Quoc Hung, PhD Fellow
• Wang Wei, PhD Fellow
• Xiaowei Tong, Research Fellow
• Yuhang Wang, Postdoc

Advisory Board

PhD Agnès Bégué
French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development

Professor, Dr. Markus Reichstein
Biogeochemical Integration Department at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry

Professor Matthew C. Hansen
Department of Geographical Sciences
University of Maryland

Professor Niall Hanan
Plant and Environmental Sciences Department
New Mexico State University 

Professor, Dr. Patrick Hostert
Geography Department
Humboldt University, Berlin